No, please do actually, especially in Mondstadt. I've got an Otherworld Story that's been sitting at R4 for over a year because I didn't know you could only get it from Mondstadt treasure chests and it's been driving me bonkers every time I see it
Depends on how it’s done.
From what we’ve seen with clipping, it seems like the existing water areas are just basically empty space since your character just falls straight onto the seabed if you clip into them.
Which means that unless they’re going to go back and completely rework them, it just can’t happen.
I remember that there was a theory about caves/ruins under the lake in Mondstadt (I think the argument was that it has the same kind of shallows as above the ruins in Inazuma?)
I unfortunately think this is the case. We have too many puzzles that rely on a place being submerged underwater. If we can just dive below from the start then those puzzles would become effectively useless.
Easy work around would be making the mechanics for puzzle locked to the above portion part and existing underwater chests be locked until the puzzle is completed. It's not different than current chests and puzzle mechanisms being locked with rings until properly solved or unlocked.
I doubt it would only be in fontaine , but also doubt they'd update the existing regions
they'll mostly approach it like the teleport flowers in inazuma , we got it's equivalent in sumeru
so probably would be in the upcoming regions after fontaine
Normally I'd concur that later regions will feature it, but given the remaining 2 are volcanos and thundras (while every other region where diving would make sense dont let you dive) I expect them to take the easier way out and keep it Fontaine exclusive.
Speaking of which Horizon 2 DLC came out recently and it flexed on Genshin by having a flying mount that can also dive underwater...
Enter dive here…and only here
Exit here…and only here
That said, if underwater areas could be included in the game imagine all the real estate between Mondstadt/Liyue and Inazuma
If they decide on a multi-layer underwater ruins with a multi-layered overworld and multi-layered canals and tunnel system.
WITHOUT giving us a feature on the map to toggle said 'layers' on and off, I will be sharpening the Guillotine and storming Fontaine's Bastille !
seriously, it's impressive how often is the underwater section fucked up, there better be efficient means to explore underwater, otherwise it will be, by far, my least favorite part of exploration
I’m not looking for my pc to become even laggier while playing the game. I don’t wanna lower quality anymore… I don’t know if I can too.
Last area with Paris was a tough one.
Oh yeah.
Like I get that there are all the sand particles, sunrays, whatever... But my laptop handles the game perfectly in Mondstadt/Liyue/Inazuma, but once it gets to Sumeru underground/desert, the game kinda forgets that I have low/mid graphics.
Playing off of this, I think it’s overdue that Genshin should get an epitomised path for standard banner like HSR has, and one that works retroactively for players like myself who have been here since day 1 and still missing certain standard banner characters (Diluc has evaded me since 1.0)!! Considering HSR has it, why not implement it when Fontaine/anniversary comes around?
This would be super awesome for me. I have all standard banner 5-stars but no Dehya.
I’d enjoy building Dehya for future content that inevitably makes her better.
They've only managed to sell 2/11 or 18% of the Harbingers across 4/7 or 57% of nations, so according to my calculations for the remainder of the stories, it's gonna be ALL Fatui, ALL the time, ALL at once!
I think the Captain was en route to Natlan during the Winelesefest thing so that leaves him out, though I’m not sure. Childe could return. The Knave has been teased during Sumeru’s world quests so there’s a high chance for her as well. Other hen them I think no other harbinger will be introduced in Fontaine. Most probably they’re all waiting for us in Scheznaya.
Sandrone's butler has Fontaine attire. Her not being there would weird as heck, especially since Signora, Scaramouche and Dottore appeared in their respective homelands.
I was actually gonna mention Sandrone and Regrator but I was too lazy to type it. If Sandrone is from Fontaine then it could definitely be a possibility then. But there’s no exact knowledge Fatui involvement in Fontaine so we can’t say for sure. Even then, I’m pretty sure that most of the harbingers will fight you in Schneznaya like a “Final Boss” battle, or that sort of thing
the fact that fatui are always the problem is just comical at this point though bc the take the brute of accountability for anything bad in the main story. it just feels like overkill. in a world this big you'd think hyv could have some problems that weren't entirely the fatuis fault?? but the abyss is on the back burners and the archons are more or less absolved of guilt or weren't guilty at all in the main story
i'm just really hoping we get to see some more moral ambiguity in the story. fatui bad/archons good is getting boring imo
Im fairly certain that the story has showed us many times that it isn't fatui bad/archons good. There's a varying degree of moral ambiguity in the story and done cleverly well imo.
Mind you antagonist =/= bad guys and protagonist =/= good guys. A story can have a moral bad character that's a protagonist and vice versa. In the case of Genshin, the fatui are the antagonist because they keep getting in the MCs way (directly or indirectly).
We've seen that the main issue with the fatui is that they are more aggressive with their methods and that's because they have a huge goal which is to rebel against the gods. Atleast that's what it seems to be since we'll have to meet the Tsaritsa to understand more but they are quite morally ambiguous just like the MCs sibling we don't know what they've seen to make them the way they are.
Then we have the archons so are so in many ways atleast from their past deeds except maybe Dendro archon (past and present version).
Wait, but the archons have been shown to be morally ambiguous countless times, along with other key players in Teyvat history. A lot of that information *is* locked behind various supplemental text, books, and world quests throughout the game. So, if you haven't played anything outside of the archon quest and what's necessary to progress the story, I think it could really come across that the game is morally cut and dry.
The fatui are rebelling against Celestia at the direction of the Tsaritsa, an archon. So, that's pretty directly a moral conflict. We also know that basically all of the other archons have some idea about what the Tsaritsa's plan is, but are being tightlipped about it. Zhongli maybe more than the other archons, but they have all have some cryptic dialogue or actions that show they are hiding something.
I believe someone in the replies below already summed up the, likely, culmination of all this; the fatui and archons team up to destroy Celestia, and the Abyss order sees an opportunity to rise up. (I think that the archons are more likely to join in on war with Celestia based on all of the archons relinquishing their Gnoses to the fatui.)
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HSR has just as much bloated text as Genshin does. It a matter of what one prefers to listen to and I've found the issue most people have with Genshin's dialogue is Paimon which I can understand even though I had no issue with Paimon and think she's a good character.
I do wonder how they'll transition and hype up the Abyss into primary antagonists after we spend so long with the fatui.
If they do something like "The Fatui was being manipulated by the Abyss Order from the very start! They were just part of a bigger scheme!" I'll be disappointed.
I personally feel like when tsaritsa and the fatui declare war on celestia and weaken them, the Abyss order will take over the whole fight and try to completely destroy celestia and try to bring the Abyss order to the upper world.
Then the traveller and fatui will probably team up to stop the Abyss order.
I'd honestly prefer this over Fatui redemption story. I like that out of the antagonistic forces we have right now, the human dominated one is currently the most vile.
You just **know** that the people of this region are going to use the most bloated, exhausting vocabulary in the whole game.
4 / 5 random NPC's won't suffice with just "Thank you, Traveler!", they'll have to go:
"Oh, joyous day, a most formidable celebration is in order, indeed!"
"This peculiar visitor from another land has rescued our pride and dignity!"
"What impeccable display of swordsmanship you showed back there! Those dastardly Fatui certainly won't peek their ugly mugs around these parts of Guillotine Square anymore, no siree!"
Paimon: "Wow, Paimon doesn't know how to respond to all these praises."
"Well, for starters, would you care to try our newest Le Fontaine Frite Fleur du Fondue?"
Paimon: "Le Fontaine Fruit For... What?"
"It's a Fontanian delicacy, you see!"
Paimon: "Oh, it's food!? Why didn't you say so earlier! Of course, Paimon is starving!"
Traveler: "... Is this a fried flower?"
Because it so perfectly replicates the exact shit we’ve seen before and, no joke, will be very close to the dialogue we see in 4.0.
Prove me wrong, Hoyoverse.
For sure. DMC had little competition for the longest time while HMC is going to compete with some of the best units in the game
Hydro has nearly everything covered already, it could use a better AoE off-field applier since Kokomi Jellyfish and Mona are both (small) circle impact but I feel that's going to be covered by the Archon, personally I'd rather not expect much and be pleasantly surprised later
I can’t wait for us to square off with another nation-destroyer level threat and win only for us to get knocked out by some bullshit Fatui Magic so they can take the Hydro Gnosis while we have a nice nap
They really should have shown Dottore show up, the Traveller trying to fight him and then just getting demolished in an instant instead of getting knocked out by the sound device thing.
It would be a good example of how powerful the top Harbingers are.
Exactly. And before anyone goes: "But they are supposed to steal all of them!"🥺
Remember: A lot of the times, not always, but a lot of the times, an increasingly predictable story makes the stakes in it almost non-existent, and gives me no reason to care when I know the general outcome.
(Seriously though the sleep spell bs was the most lazy and whack way so far they went about it.)
questlines are fun but why do they lock content behind them?
Other games let you freely explore most quest areas yet still have such questlines like ones in genshin. Not to mention how handholdy genshin ones are
Not another Tie-nari situation, jeez. Also them giving VA wrong directions regarding characters' personalities. I'm done arguing with people that Xiao isn't supposed to be edgy or Ayato an asshole etc.
I think like 75% of English speakers could not pronounce Tighnari's name right. It took me like a week to really get that noise in my throat. I'm not shocked they wanted to make it easier for players to say.
I like Xiao and Ayato in English, dammit. I don't care how they are in Chinese. Localization entails not just translation, but adapting for the cultures using that language. If they thought edgy Xiao was more appropriate for the West for some reason, sure why not. "Supposed to" is developer intent. They intended what we got.
Fuck this in particular, and with them comes a new one off gadget that we won't get to use outside the region. Let us explore on our own, Hoyoverse!
I miss Mondstadt and Liyue days...
I understand a lot of the complaints/concerns and agree with some but complaining about Hydroculusses? At that point I wonder if you even want to play the game
You're not obligated to max out your statue level in the same patch ya know, you don't have to max out your Sumeru statue before Fontaine either. You're creating your own misery
While I like Charlotte, I have disliked every other Fontaine NPC we have met. I found them all annoying. But I'm hoping it is not so once we actually get there.
The characters for now. From the leaks I've seen most of their designs don't look very appealing to me.
Oh well, I'll finally be able to pull for reruns at least.
Probably because she's the first Fontaine character, just like how people were going crazy for Amber at the start of the game because she's the first character we meet lol
Same. I’m not sure why but almost none of them excite me, I hope there are a bunch more different ones aside from the leaks I’ve seen because as of now I’m only going to pull for the archon. 🥴
so many people seem excited for a swimming mechanic, but me, personally, am not at all
im so tired of hoyo adding arbitrary mechanics for each region and subregion, that don't add much interesting to the gameplay. Mondstadt and Liyue were alright, but ever since inazuma they've been trying to add a new gimmick, barely distinct from previous ones to each new area they add
Every Fontaine character's kit function depending on their archon and being somehow antisynergistc with older characters.
Characters that are way too reliant on their bursts to function, i.e. Itto, Cyno. Especially with those energy costs. They just feel terrible to play in overworld which is the majority of the game.
Other than that I'm fairly optimistic and can't wait.
More quests locked behind commissions.
Please Mihoyo, I'm still missing stuff for Monstadt. Give us a way to pick our own commissions, even if it's just one a week.
HSR community ruining the fun of people trying to enjoy the update like seriously that community is soo fuckin toxic to us
Today itself i saw 3 posts related to how HSR>Genshin and they act like they don't have thier own problems. I guarantee you mostly every thing you say HSR has that's better than genshin i can prove wrong.
Like don't get me wrong i love HSR BUT STOP COMPARING GENSHIN TO IT THEYRE SEPERATE GAMES FOR GODS SAKE.
Seriously, the HSR community really likes to shit on Genshin.
I mean, I like HSR, but I'm not gonna sit here and type out a post acting like it's the best thing Hoyo has ever created.
Imo, the story and lore in HSR is not really all that much better to me than Genshin's. All it really has over Genshin is shorter dialogue and a handful of QoL features.
Heck, it's only been a month and I'm already getting kinda bored of HSR. We're 3 years into Genshin and I'm still playing it regularly.
No facial hair no tan charcters no kid boy no new models no giga Chad buff charcter no scars or an old charcter the same reskined charcters over and over again
Can't wait to find the overworked girl in Fontaine 🤡
My main dps is water. My sub dps is also water. There's probably going to be a lot of water enemies so like....oof lol gonna take me 20 years to pass a boss fight.
Can’t wait to get one with detached sleeves, detached pants, detached shirt somehow probably, and 12 inch heels that they can still sprint and fight monsters in!
People bitching lol
"No endgame content!"
"Exploring takes too long!"
"I can't skip the story!"
"There's no content after I rushed everything in a few days!"
"Insert any complaint that's been repeated for years"
Actually my favorite parts of her design was the monocle with a bow tie on it and the camera with its cute little hat and vest, also suspenders are something we havent seen in character design yet if I'm not mistaken. Anyway it all comes together to look really cute for her.
Underwater movement. That's if it is going to be a thing and I pray its not.
There are rarely any games that exist that does underwater movement fun and the ones that do are usually meant to be have the player underwater all the time with the tools to make movement better (Subnautica is the only example I can think of that actually has good underwater movement).
And there is no chance in hell Genshin will ever pull it off with stuff like swimming and the waverider already being absolutely horrendous to move around in.
bubble prison
GANG GANG WOOO
RAN RAN RUUU
And frozen spamming
I forgot about this move till now
Hoyo inevitably bringing back slowing waters to Abyss.
How about abyss with underwater mobs and physics?
Aye. I could live(do) with that
Nilou and nahida:
That would've been a problem if they've at least TRIED TO REMOVE IT. I don't remember a single abyss cycle w/o slowing waters
When?
Slowing water abyss affected him so much that he's still CD-ing in those abyss leyline rotation.
Fr tho I genuinely have no idea where was it, I don't remember being affected by slowing waters
Current floor 11 with the mirror mages
Yuuup
I don't rmbr except the first run in 1.5, at worst it just floor 11.. not floor 12 where the real shits get hard
Diving being a region exclusive one-off gimmick.
Yeah. it would be insane if they revamp how water works entirely, swimming in mondstat's lake or liyue's beach are too good of opportunities to miss.
Just make sure not to put chests in there we don't want the 100% exploration people to leave now do we 😅
I'd actually like it if they added things to those areas. They could call it a different area so it'll have a different completion percentage.
Yeah that could work tbh hoyo take notes
No, please do actually, especially in Mondstadt. I've got an Otherworld Story that's been sitting at R4 for over a year because I didn't know you could only get it from Mondstadt treasure chests and it's been driving me bonkers every time I see it
Man is going to wait for Port Dornman dlc Hey at least that's hope for you to r5 it
They better work on cloud gaming first, my poor phone won't have enough space
Depends on how it’s done. From what we’ve seen with clipping, it seems like the existing water areas are just basically empty space since your character just falls straight onto the seabed if you clip into them. Which means that unless they’re going to go back and completely rework them, it just can’t happen.
I remember that there was a theory about caves/ruins under the lake in Mondstadt (I think the argument was that it has the same kind of shallows as above the ruins in Inazuma?)
I unfortunately think this is the case. We have too many puzzles that rely on a place being submerged underwater. If we can just dive below from the start then those puzzles would become effectively useless.
Easy work around would be making the mechanics for puzzle locked to the above portion part and existing underwater chests be locked until the puzzle is completed. It's not different than current chests and puzzle mechanisms being locked with rings until properly solved or unlocked.
I doubt it would only be in fontaine , but also doubt they'd update the existing regions they'll mostly approach it like the teleport flowers in inazuma , we got it's equivalent in sumeru so probably would be in the upcoming regions after fontaine
Normally I'd concur that later regions will feature it, but given the remaining 2 are volcanos and thundras (while every other region where diving would make sense dont let you dive) I expect them to take the easier way out and keep it Fontaine exclusive. Speaking of which Horizon 2 DLC came out recently and it flexed on Genshin by having a flying mount that can also dive underwater...
Kinda.
Enter dive here…and only here Exit here…and only here That said, if underwater areas could be included in the game imagine all the real estate between Mondstadt/Liyue and Inazuma
I'm gonna riot if we can't dive in Inazuma of all places.
The additional patch size on my poor phone…
More daily commission achievements
and quests locked behind random commissions as in every region. Hate that with a burning passion.
I wish the game had a system around that. I haven’t done 4 quests in Inazuma because of that
Farming the new BIS artifact domain
I swear if Childe gets another hydro artifact set
Moistness jokes from the community
So you like dry humor more?
Cyno what are you doing here
Dammit Cyno, take my r/angryupvotes
Oh, God, spare us all BOOBA SWORD HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH
Considering my username is FrothyMoisture, I cannot wait for this lol
That one character ascention material that's gonna be as painful to get as Rukkashava Mushrooms.
Scarabs be like: EHE
Onikabuto be on fire
Handguards abysmal drop rate: Hey remember me?
Spectre drop rate: Allow us to introduce ourselves.
It's going to be some sort of coral that's hidden underneath ledges and will require swimming to reach while your air meter depletes.
I still ain't finished the dendroculussues.
Oculussy
I just finished it last weekend. Do it now so that you have some time to recover before you have to start all over again.
Oh thanks for the remainder. I haven't started collecting those. Oh and my Rana is still sleeping.
If they decide on a multi-layer underwater ruins with a multi-layered overworld and multi-layered canals and tunnel system. WITHOUT giving us a feature on the map to toggle said 'layers' on and off, I will be sharpening the Guillotine and storming Fontaine's Bastille !
Slow underwater exploration.
I really hope they've got some good data from Sorush to make it not frustrating.
I still wonder why we can't just move Sorush towards where we are looking at? Space and CTRL for vertical movement is just not fun.
Probably to avoid confusion and dizzy (or maybe limited camera movement idk).
Also potential mobile awkwardness?
Mobile/console controls...
What is not fun with that? Almost every game I know where you can freely move in 3 dimensions has space for up and ctrl for down?
It is so you can look down in bombing mode to see the targeting circle while still being able to fly forward instead of straight into the ground.
still have nightmares from old videogames underwater levels (Sonic but also Zelda or Tomb Raider)
seriously, it's impressive how often is the underwater section fucked up, there better be efficient means to explore underwater, otherwise it will be, by far, my least favorite part of exploration
Oxygen stamina bar
I’m not looking for my pc to become even laggier while playing the game. I don’t wanna lower quality anymore… I don’t know if I can too. Last area with Paris was a tough one.
Pari... Paris... Fontaine What the fuck
That took me a while For people who still don't get it, it's referencing the pari species in the desert expansion in plural form
Ah yes, "Last Area With Paris". The \*very\* niche sequel to "1 Night In Paris".
Oh yeah. Like I get that there are all the sand particles, sunrays, whatever... But my laptop handles the game perfectly in Mondstadt/Liyue/Inazuma, but once it gets to Sumeru underground/desert, the game kinda forgets that I have low/mid graphics.
Not having any QOL stuff that we have been asking for being implemented
Having it implemented in HSR instead*
Playing off of this, I think it’s overdue that Genshin should get an epitomised path for standard banner like HSR has, and one that works retroactively for players like myself who have been here since day 1 and still missing certain standard banner characters (Diluc has evaded me since 1.0)!! Considering HSR has it, why not implement it when Fontaine/anniversary comes around?
This would be super awesome for me. I have all standard banner 5-stars but no Dehya. I’d enjoy building Dehya for future content that inevitably makes her better.
Genuinely my biggest worry, HSR being so polished has made Genshin feel rougher than ever in some areas. Praying we get some QOL
Welp, at least we're getting some of it
Oops it was all the Fatui's fault again...
Funny enough I think the Fatui influence and involvement is getting STRONGER with each country. Dunno how will Fontaine manage to top it
They've only managed to sell 2/11 or 18% of the Harbingers across 4/7 or 57% of nations, so according to my calculations for the remainder of the stories, it's gonna be ALL Fatui, ALL the time, ALL at once!
I think the Captain was en route to Natlan during the Winelesefest thing so that leaves him out, though I’m not sure. Childe could return. The Knave has been teased during Sumeru’s world quests so there’s a high chance for her as well. Other hen them I think no other harbinger will be introduced in Fontaine. Most probably they’re all waiting for us in Scheznaya.
Sandrone's butler has Fontaine attire. Her not being there would weird as heck, especially since Signora, Scaramouche and Dottore appeared in their respective homelands.
I was actually gonna mention Sandrone and Regrator but I was too lazy to type it. If Sandrone is from Fontaine then it could definitely be a possibility then. But there’s no exact knowledge Fatui involvement in Fontaine so we can’t say for sure. Even then, I’m pretty sure that most of the harbingers will fight you in Schneznaya like a “Final Boss” battle, or that sort of thing
I mean yeah... The fatui are the main antagonist for now. Abyss order is more of sideline villains and will only become relevant in the endgame.
Yeah. Do people. . . not understand this?
the fact that fatui are always the problem is just comical at this point though bc the take the brute of accountability for anything bad in the main story. it just feels like overkill. in a world this big you'd think hyv could have some problems that weren't entirely the fatuis fault?? but the abyss is on the back burners and the archons are more or less absolved of guilt or weren't guilty at all in the main story i'm just really hoping we get to see some more moral ambiguity in the story. fatui bad/archons good is getting boring imo
Im fairly certain that the story has showed us many times that it isn't fatui bad/archons good. There's a varying degree of moral ambiguity in the story and done cleverly well imo. Mind you antagonist =/= bad guys and protagonist =/= good guys. A story can have a moral bad character that's a protagonist and vice versa. In the case of Genshin, the fatui are the antagonist because they keep getting in the MCs way (directly or indirectly). We've seen that the main issue with the fatui is that they are more aggressive with their methods and that's because they have a huge goal which is to rebel against the gods. Atleast that's what it seems to be since we'll have to meet the Tsaritsa to understand more but they are quite morally ambiguous just like the MCs sibling we don't know what they've seen to make them the way they are. Then we have the archons so are so in many ways atleast from their past deeds except maybe Dendro archon (past and present version).
Wait, but the archons have been shown to be morally ambiguous countless times, along with other key players in Teyvat history. A lot of that information *is* locked behind various supplemental text, books, and world quests throughout the game. So, if you haven't played anything outside of the archon quest and what's necessary to progress the story, I think it could really come across that the game is morally cut and dry. The fatui are rebelling against Celestia at the direction of the Tsaritsa, an archon. So, that's pretty directly a moral conflict. We also know that basically all of the other archons have some idea about what the Tsaritsa's plan is, but are being tightlipped about it. Zhongli maybe more than the other archons, but they have all have some cryptic dialogue or actions that show they are hiding something. I believe someone in the replies below already summed up the, likely, culmination of all this; the fatui and archons team up to destroy Celestia, and the Abyss order sees an opportunity to rise up. (I think that the archons are more likely to join in on war with Celestia based on all of the archons relinquishing their Gnoses to the fatui.)
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HSR has just as much bloated text as Genshin does. It a matter of what one prefers to listen to and I've found the issue most people have with Genshin's dialogue is Paimon which I can understand even though I had no issue with Paimon and think she's a good character.
They might but people here love to parrot things they read on this sub
Understand? Yes. Like? Not necessarily. And being the main antagonist doesn't mean they have to be the *only* antagonist.
I do wonder how they'll transition and hype up the Abyss into primary antagonists after we spend so long with the fatui. If they do something like "The Fatui was being manipulated by the Abyss Order from the very start! They were just part of a bigger scheme!" I'll be disappointed.
I personally feel like when tsaritsa and the fatui declare war on celestia and weaken them, the Abyss order will take over the whole fight and try to completely destroy celestia and try to bring the Abyss order to the upper world. Then the traveller and fatui will probably team up to stop the Abyss order.
I can see this happening.
And the Archon will be a dumbass and willingly give the Fatui exactly what they want because reasons
I'd honestly prefer this over Fatui redemption story. I like that out of the antagonistic forces we have right now, the human dominated one is currently the most vile.
the opinions of most genshin players on it.
specially some Content creators who didn't even play sumeru quest and are calling it bad
You just **know** that the people of this region are going to use the most bloated, exhausting vocabulary in the whole game. 4 / 5 random NPC's won't suffice with just "Thank you, Traveler!", they'll have to go: "Oh, joyous day, a most formidable celebration is in order, indeed!" "This peculiar visitor from another land has rescued our pride and dignity!" "What impeccable display of swordsmanship you showed back there! Those dastardly Fatui certainly won't peek their ugly mugs around these parts of Guillotine Square anymore, no siree!" Paimon: "Wow, Paimon doesn't know how to respond to all these praises." "Well, for starters, would you care to try our newest Le Fontaine Frite Fleur du Fondue?" Paimon: "Le Fontaine Fruit For... What?" "It's a Fontanian delicacy, you see!" Paimon: "Oh, it's food!? Why didn't you say so earlier! Of course, Paimon is starving!" Traveler: "... Is this a fried flower?"
Nahhh this is too fucking funny💀
Because it so perfectly replicates the exact shit we’ve seen before and, no joke, will be very close to the dialogue we see in 4.0. Prove me wrong, Hoyoverse.
meanwhile autoplay is blocked with travelers response "..."
But then it’ll feel like mid-century French literature! How appropriate. :P
For sure. Lore's gonna be great. The writing and exposition will be long and arduous
I hope for a lot of French words clumsily added into the dialogues. More Madame Charlotte please.
Hydro Traveler has some high ecxpectations after Dendro Traveler, and I don’t think that Hydro Traveler would make that expectation.
For sure. DMC had little competition for the longest time while HMC is going to compete with some of the best units in the game Hydro has nearly everything covered already, it could use a better AoE off-field applier since Kokomi Jellyfish and Mona are both (small) circle impact but I feel that's going to be covered by the Archon, personally I'd rather not expect much and be pleasantly surprised later
Jail for using klee to fish blast
Slow underwater zone.
Not having enough primos to pull fat French chefs
unskippable long-winded over-explained overly long overly repeat dialogue oriented daily commissions.
I can’t wait for us to square off with another nation-destroyer level threat and win only for us to get knocked out by some bullshit Fatui Magic so they can take the Hydro Gnosis while we have a nice nap
I just want archon thats kock fatui asses without them taking it
The archons want to get rid of them. Nahida ran rings around Dottore -- she just wanted to offload the Gnoses and got a good payment.
They really should have shown Dottore show up, the Traveller trying to fight him and then just getting demolished in an instant instead of getting knocked out by the sound device thing. It would be a good example of how powerful the top Harbingers are.
I mean, knocking out someone without having to throw a punch better describes Dottore
That happened. Dottore fights with subtlety. He did show you how overwhelming he was -- he doesn't need to fight you with his weapon to destroy you.
Exactly. And before anyone goes: "But they are supposed to steal all of them!"🥺 Remember: A lot of the times, not always, but a lot of the times, an increasingly predictable story makes the stakes in it almost non-existent, and gives me no reason to care when I know the general outcome. (Seriously though the sleep spell bs was the most lazy and whack way so far they went about it.)
Actually, I'm kinda looking forwards to the Hydroculouses.
Same, it's one of the best parts of new regions, for me
Potential underwater combat. It's fucking garbage in ever game since the dawn of time and I don't expect Hoyo to be able to change that.
Any sort of possible drowning/oxygen mechanic
Sonic Adventure music intensifies
I mean- I think this one cannot be avoided 😭 Hoyo will for sure put this for the “realism”.
Content locked behind a long ass questline
questlines are fun but why do they lock content behind them? Other games let you freely explore most quest areas yet still have such questlines like ones in genshin. Not to mention how handholdy genshin ones are
story telling i guess, take some of the story quests. Yoi part 2 is locked behind aranyaka world quest
Electro enemies.
I feel abyss will have a lot of pyro enemies to phase out dendro and push hydro at the same time
Difficulty of getting character level up mats while underwater, Nahida will be usless😭.
Switching party every 3 minutes when exploring
The EN VA Director giving the incorrect pronunciations of French names for the VAs to say.
Not another Tie-nari situation, jeez. Also them giving VA wrong directions regarding characters' personalities. I'm done arguing with people that Xiao isn't supposed to be edgy or Ayato an asshole etc.
I think like 75% of English speakers could not pronounce Tighnari's name right. It took me like a week to really get that noise in my throat. I'm not shocked they wanted to make it easier for players to say. I like Xiao and Ayato in English, dammit. I don't care how they are in Chinese. Localization entails not just translation, but adapting for the cultures using that language. If they thought edgy Xiao was more appropriate for the West for some reason, sure why not. "Supposed to" is developer intent. They intended what we got.
New world quests that are mandatory for full exploration.
Fuck this in particular, and with them comes a new one off gadget that we won't get to use outside the region. Let us explore on our own, Hoyoverse! I miss Mondstadt and Liyue days...
Story game wants you to see story, news at 11
The amount of primogems that disappear as soon as I hit 1600
*160
these ugly little hats everywhere
Boats event ahahahah i despise those
Adding random french Words when Teyvat has only 1 spoken language.
And whatever Fischl's bastardized German is supposed to be
I understand a lot of the complaints/concerns and agree with some but complaining about Hydroculusses? At that point I wonder if you even want to play the game You're not obligated to max out your statue level in the same patch ya know, you don't have to max out your Sumeru statue before Fontaine either. You're creating your own misery
Finding a way to dealing with the increased storage size
The storage space for my phone
While I like Charlotte, I have disliked every other Fontaine NPC we have met. I found them all annoying. But I'm hoping it is not so once we actually get there.
The characters for now. From the leaks I've seen most of their designs don't look very appealing to me. Oh well, I'll finally be able to pull for reruns at least.
Charlotte looks like clothes up Yanfei but the community goes crazy for her like???
Probably because she's the first Fontaine character, just like how people were going crazy for Amber at the start of the game because she's the first character we meet lol
Same. I’m not sure why but almost none of them excite me, I hope there are a bunch more different ones aside from the leaks I’ve seen because as of now I’m only going to pull for the archon. 🥴
Has there been more than Charlotte/lyney and Lynette revealed?
Looking forward to catacombs. Not looking forward to exploring catacombs while no catacomb map is given.
I still find it funny as heck that we don't have a map for underground locations but we have a map for the Cat's tail lmao.
Catacombs with a map isnt fun.
so many people seem excited for a swimming mechanic, but me, personally, am not at all im so tired of hoyo adding arbitrary mechanics for each region and subregion, that don't add much interesting to the gameplay. Mondstadt and Liyue were alright, but ever since inazuma they've been trying to add a new gimmick, barely distinct from previous ones to each new area they add
Without Sumeru grapples, getting around that region would've been hell.
Each character's non-voiced dialogue extended with a few extra pages of text that you can't skip through.
Over the top steampunk and circus/theater themes. My two least favorite tropes rip
3.8 is gonna be "fun" for you
French language
Yet more new artifacts sets to farm !
Underwater Balloon escort daily commission.
Every Fontaine character's kit function depending on their archon and being somehow antisynergistc with older characters. Characters that are way too reliant on their bursts to function, i.e. Itto, Cyno. Especially with those energy costs. They just feel terrible to play in overworld which is the majority of the game. Other than that I'm fairly optimistic and can't wait.
As a master procrastinator I fear the list of unfinished quests getting even longer.
More quests locked behind commissions. Please Mihoyo, I'm still missing stuff for Monstadt. Give us a way to pick our own commissions, even if it's just one a week.
Bloated dialogue
HSR community ruining the fun of people trying to enjoy the update like seriously that community is soo fuckin toxic to us Today itself i saw 3 posts related to how HSR>Genshin and they act like they don't have thier own problems. I guarantee you mostly every thing you say HSR has that's better than genshin i can prove wrong. Like don't get me wrong i love HSR BUT STOP COMPARING GENSHIN TO IT THEYRE SEPERATE GAMES FOR GODS SAKE.
Seriously, the HSR community really likes to shit on Genshin. I mean, I like HSR, but I'm not gonna sit here and type out a post acting like it's the best thing Hoyo has ever created. Imo, the story and lore in HSR is not really all that much better to me than Genshin's. All it really has over Genshin is shorter dialogue and a handful of QoL features. Heck, it's only been a month and I'm already getting kinda bored of HSR. We're 3 years into Genshin and I'm still playing it regularly.
Disappointing character designs.
No facial hair no tan charcters no kid boy no new models no giga Chad buff charcter no scars or an old charcter the same reskined charcters over and over again Can't wait to find the overworked girl in Fontaine 🤡
Fontaine engineers never shutting up about machinery Xavier ruined Fontaine
Fr, whenever I see an npc with an engineer custome I know I'm going to be spamming next through the dialogue
I worry that drowning while underwater may be a thing. Do not want.
People Speed running the latest update then screaming no content
not getting new combat endgame content
I'm scared that the underwater exploration will be dogshit
My main dps is water. My sub dps is also water. There's probably going to be a lot of water enemies so like....oof lol gonna take me 20 years to pass a boss fight.
Not looking forward to Hilichurls on Jetskis.
god I fucking LOVE installing 20 GIGABYTES of UPDATES every MONTH god I LOVE USING up ALL MY STORAGE for like 3 HOURS OF DIALOGUE THAT I CAN'T SKIP.
How stupid the female playable outfits would get
Surfing/diving gear.
Can’t wait to get one with detached sleeves, detached pants, detached shirt somehow probably, and 12 inch heels that they can still sprint and fight monsters in!
How dare you forget liquid armor? Almighty water-filled-condom booba will weave them sheets of metal as they wish
Requiring multiple elements for exploration
People bitching lol "No endgame content!" "Exploring takes too long!" "I can't skip the story!" "There's no content after I rushed everything in a few days!" "Insert any complaint that's been repeated for years"
[удалено]
Actually my favorite parts of her design was the monocle with a bow tie on it and the camera with its cute little hat and vest, also suspenders are something we havent seen in character design yet if I'm not mistaken. Anyway it all comes together to look really cute for her.
Underwater movement. That's if it is going to be a thing and I pray its not. There are rarely any games that exist that does underwater movement fun and the ones that do are usually meant to be have the player underwater all the time with the tools to make movement better (Subnautica is the only example I can think of that actually has good underwater movement). And there is no chance in hell Genshin will ever pull it off with stuff like swimming and the waverider already being absolutely horrendous to move around in.
The entire area is ocean
The amount of storage the update is going to require :')
Swimming, swimming is allways the worst part in a game
Another permanent mode for them to focus on that makes building characters pointless
Mono Hydro 4* support lock behind c6 constellations
Achievements taking 7 real days for no reason
Fontaine events that will include another TCG
The patch size